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Earliest time to cut the grass tomorrow??

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TakingThePeanutsCarol · 30/05/2026 17:16

I’m on a new build estate, so lots of people living around me. I need to cut the grass tomorrow but want to do it as early as possible to avoid the heat - health conditions make it too difficult once it warms up. Obviously I don’t want to be a dick though 🤦‍♀️

What’s the consensus? 9am???

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TakingThePeanutsCarol · 30/05/2026 19:16

Ha, I love the range of comments on this.

The 7am/8am crowd - you’re sociopaths 😂😂

To those saying do it tonight - not possible unfortunately. I literally have a window tomorrow morning to get it done.

To those saying it’s not hot tomorrow - who knows, maybe it will cool down. But the crux of question could still stand on any hot or cold day… what is the earliest acceptable time on a Sunday morning?

I think 9.30/10.00 seems to be acceptable by the majority??

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Witchonenowbob · 30/05/2026 19:14

9am although I’d not be bothered by you doing in at 6am, but some would.

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 30/05/2026 19:14

9

Letsgoanddoit · 30/05/2026 19:10

TakingThePeanutsCarol · 30/05/2026 17:26

Nope, still hot tomorrow for me

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It really isn’t.

Isittimeformynapyet · 30/05/2026 19:04

EmeraldRoulette · 30/05/2026 17:59

10

but where is going to be hot tomorrow?

I'm in Essex and even we are forecast to have it cool down tomorrow - I'm desperate for my flight to cool down so I'm very pleased but also confused because it doesn't look as if the temperature is coming down much tonight.

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Your flight? 🛫

Summer26 · 30/05/2026 19:04

I would say 9am is fine OP with the caveat that I one lived in a terribly naice area, where after my DH cut the grass at 9.45am on a Sunday we received a letter from my neighbours advising 10am was the earliest allowable time. This was actually true, a local law.

ShetlandishMum · 30/05/2026 18:59

Sunday? 10 am.

TotalBaloney · 30/05/2026 18:58

Harhar · 30/05/2026 18:46

Next door might be annoying but other neighbours have to put up with their late noise and your early mornings. I wouldn’t start before 10.

I only have one set of neighbours, the annoying ones who keep my kids awake until midnight!

PotteringAlonggotkickedoutandhadtoreregister · 30/05/2026 18:58

Do it tonight!

youalright · 30/05/2026 18:56

Notmyreality · 30/05/2026 18:32

8am

I would hate you to be my neighbour

youalright · 30/05/2026 18:56

9am absolute earliest. 10 would be better

CoudyWithAChanceOfCustard · 30/05/2026 18:53

I’d say 9am would be ‘ok’…but 10am on a Sunday would be better. I’m an early riser myself so it wouldn’t bother me at all, but let’s give people grace…it’s Sunday, it might be their only chance of a lie in!

Auroraloves · 30/05/2026 18:51

I’d say 10am

Sunshineclouds11 · 30/05/2026 18:50

10 on a Sunday

Harhar · 30/05/2026 18:46

Next door might be annoying but other neighbours have to put up with their late noise and your early mornings. I wouldn’t start before 10.

KentCatLady · 30/05/2026 18:41

It depends how annoying your neighbours are…

AmazingGreatAunt · 30/05/2026 18:39

If you are in the U K 08:00 is fine. If you live where I do, there is not cutting grass on a Sunday, EVER.

SplendidUtterly · 30/05/2026 18:32

10am

Notmyreality · 30/05/2026 18:32

8am

TotalBaloney · 30/05/2026 18:31

user1476613140 · 30/05/2026 18:24

My ndn's keep us awake til 2am when they have guests so getting up really early (6am) to get on with watching TV very loudly or mowing the lawn 8am is fine with me😀

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Same, my neighbours are regularly out in the garden with music on/drinking with guests until midnight, keeping my kids awake so I have no qualms about waking them up with the lawnmower/kids playing in the garden at 8am!

Ilovemyshed · 30/05/2026 18:30

10 am

thetruthshallsetyoufreebutfirstitwillpissyouoff · 30/05/2026 18:30

I mean my kids are up at the crack of dawn so I wouldn't care as long as it was past 6:30 (just in case they're having a lie in). But now reasonably I'd say 9. That's the earliest for me letting the kids outside (though if my neighbour was mowing his lawn earlier I'd release them early).

TheCurious0range · 30/05/2026 18:28

DH was going to go out at 8 a couple of weekends ago and and I told him pre 9 was anti social on a Sunday. He went out at 9 and within minutes I could hear several other neighbours mowing, it was all done by ten then so also not disturbing lunches/BBQs etc

user1476613140 · 30/05/2026 18:26

PeloMom · 30/05/2026 17:47

If someone did that to me in the weekend I’ll be throwing eggs in their garden. It’s inhumane!

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😁

user1476613140 · 30/05/2026 18:24

catgirl1976 · 30/05/2026 18:11

10am. Any earlier is just rude and selfish

My ndn's keep us awake til 2am when they have guests so getting up really early (6am) to get on with watching TV very loudly or mowing the lawn 8am is fine with me😀

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